Dr. Bill Vicars

I'm president and owner of the Lifeprint Institute, a consultation business focusing on technology-enhanced delivery of ASL Instruction, excursion-based instruction (trips to amusement parks), occasional "hyper-immersions" (intense one-week, semi-private, residency-based immersions), and occasional "ASL Linguistics" and/or "Train the ASL Trainer" workshops.

Some of my current and/or past experiences and qualifications include:

- Decades of experience as a university-level ASL instructor including workshops presented internationally
- Authored and self-published "Sign Me Up!"  (Which was a really cool 212-page ASL Guide and activity book that sold out all 3,000 copies. Eventually I turned it into the Lifeprint website.)
- Directed an 18-month Interpreter Training program (twice)
- Co-chaired the Disability Law Center's Consumer Advisory Council (UT)
- Served a term as an elected board member of the Utah Association for the Deaf
- Parent of a child who attended the Utah State School for the Deaf pre-school program
- Set up and directed a not-for-profit a 501(c)(3) organization to improve Deaf access to services (the precursor to ASL University)
- Served as advisor to the Sign Language Association (ASL Club) at Weber State University (an award winning organization)
- As far as I know, I was the first ASL instructor from Utah to earn certification from the American Sign Language Teachers Association. A bit of nostalgia for you -- way back when I first joined ASLTA they called themselves S.I.G.N. (Sign Instructors Guidance Network). Hooyah! (I live in California as of this writing).

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